Managing Stress: The Reality for Small Businesses Business Breakfast

Our partners at Working for Wellness, the London Mental Health and Employment Partnership, are organising a free business breakfast for small businesses looking at issues surrounding stress. The breakfast will take place on Tuesday 2nd March, 8am - 10am at Broadway House, London, SW1H 9NQ

Shift are supporting the event and will be on hand to show our free tools for employers.

If you'd like to find out more about the event, download the flyer here.

You can book your free place here

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Shift are looking for real life accounts from either employees or employers who can talk about what works when managing mental health in the workplace.

These accounts will be filmed and put on our website and on to DVDs for distribution to employers in England.

The films will aim to reduce the stigma and discrimination surrounding mental health and are a means to educate, inform and spread best practice. By being filmed you will be making a real contribution towards creating change.

Click here for more about information about the films and to find out how you can get involved.
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Shift has published an updated version of the Line Managers' Resource, a document that gives practical advice to managing and supporting people with mental health conditions in the workplace.

The resource is written for managers and recognises that workplace settings are vast and very diverse. It offers practical advice on managing and supporting people who are experiencing stress, distress and mental health conditions.

You can use it both to learn good practice in preparation for when an employee or employees are off on mental health grounds and to support their return to work.

The resource aims to directly address the fear, ignorance and stigma around engaging with someone experiencing mental health problems. The key message is that it is important to talk openly and with trust. The guide suggests practical steps that you and your employees can take together to:

• match the job requirements with the employee’s capabilities
  
• maintain regular contact with staff to identify any problems early
  
• talk at an early stage of distress to prevent the problem escalating
  
• keep in touch during sickness absence to offer support and plan for the return to work
  
• achieve a successful return to work
  
• manage a long-term illness whilst remaining in work, and
  
• access sources of support and information.

The accompanying website also provides advice and information for employees to help them to assess their own needs and plan for meetings with their manager.

It is part of Shift’s Action on Stigma initiative aimed at supporting employers to promote good mental health and reduce discrimination and is a revised edition of the original Line Managers’ Resource (LMR) published in 2007. The original LMR was itself an update of the Mind Out for Mental Health Line Managers’ Resource published in 2003.

We have produced the resource in partnership with the Department of Health, Department for Work and Pensions, Health and Safety Executive, Cross-Government Health Work Wellbeing Delivery Unit and the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. Find out more about these partners.

• Visit the Shift Line Managers' Web Resource to read the resource online and to download electronic copies.

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Shift has published the Line Managers' Resource, a document that gives practical advice to managing and supporting people with mental health problems in the workplace.

The Line Managers' Resource is a booklet and website that gives advice and information for managing and supporting people with mental health problems in the workplace.

The Line Managers' Web Resource website also gives advice and information for employees to help them assess their own needs and plan for meetings with their manager.

See the Line Managers' Resource website for more information.

Tags: shift, employers, lmr, action on stigma